Pavel Jelic Many apple phone users are looking for how to free up space on the iPhone. There is absolutely nothing to be surprised about, especially for individuals who still own older iPhones with less storage. Storage requirements are getting bigger and bigger, and while a few years ago a photo might have only been a few megabytes, it can currently take up tens of megabytes. And as for video, a single minute of recording can easily use more than one gigabyte of storage space. We could go on and on like this, short and simple, if you want to find out how you can free up storage space on your iPhone, this article has some great tips.
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Use streaming services
Whether you want to listen to music or podcasts these days, or perhaps watch movies and series, you can use streaming services, which have recently experienced a huge boom. And there is nothing to be surprised about, because for a few tens of crowns a month you can get access to all the content you can think of, without the need to search, download and save anything. In addition, if you use streaming services, you will save a lot of storage space at the same time, since the content is delivered to you via an Internet connection. As for music streaming services, you can go for example Spotify or Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), Music, services are then available for watching movies and series Netflix, HBO Max, TV+, Prime Video whether Disney +. Streaming services are extremely easy to use, and once you've tried them, you won't want anything else.
Turn on automatic message deletion
Every message you send or receive in the native Messages app is saved to your iPhone's storage, including attachments. So if you have been using Messages, iMessage in other words, for several long years, it can simply happen that all conversations and messages will take up a lot of storage space. Precisely in this case, a trick in the form of automatic deletion of older messages could come in handy. You can activate it simply in Settings → Messages → Leave messages, where the option to delete messages is offered older than 30 days, or older than 1 year.
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Reduce the video quality
As already mentioned in the introduction, a minute of iPhone video can easily take up a gigabyte of storage space. Specifically, the latest iPhones can record up to 4K at 60 FPS, with Dolby Vision support. However, in order for there to be any meaning in making such videos, you of course have to have somewhere to play them. Otherwise, recording the video in such a huge quality is unnecessary, so you can reduce it, thereby freeing up storage space for other data. You can change the video recording quality in Settings → Photos, where you can click either video recording, as the case may be Slow motion recording. Then it's enough select the desired quality. At the bottom of the screen you will find approximate information about how much storage space is taken up by one minute of recording at a specific quality. It should be mentioned that the quality of the recording can be changed in any case camera, and that in the upper right part after moving into the mode Video.
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Use a highly efficient photo format
Like videos, classic photos can also take up a lot of storage space. However, Apple has been offering its own efficient photo format for a long time, which can take up less storage space with the same quality. Specifically, this efficient format uses the HEIC format instead of the classic JPEG format. Nowadays, however, you don't have to worry about it at all, as it is natively supported by all operating systems and applications, so you won't have any problems with it. To activate this format, just go to Settings → Camera → Formats, where tick possibility High efficiency.
Activate automatic deletion of podcasts
You can use several different services to listen to podcasts. Apple also offers one of these and it is simply called Podcasts. You can listen to all podcasts either via streaming or you can download them to your Apple phone storage for offline listening. If you like to download podcasts, then in order to save storage space, you should activate the function that ensures their automatic deletion after complete playback. To turn it on, just go to Settings → Podcasts, where you go down a piece belowa activate possibility Delete played.
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